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Retired Calif. Judges Unlikely To Revive Age Bias Suit
A California appellate court tentatively ruled against seven retired California state court judges accusing California's Judicial Council of age discrimination due to rules limiting the time retired judges can spend on temporary assignments, saying plaintiffs haven't shown a statistically significant impact to judges over 70, among other concerns.
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Client Says Colo. Injury Attys Didn't Tell Him About Settlement
A personal injury plaintiff is suing his former attorneys and their Colorado law firm for malpractice after they allegedly failed to notify him of a settlement offer in time, forcing the case to trial where jurors issued a verdict that was less than the settlement offer.
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Milbank Latest To Ink Trump Deal To Avoid Executive Order
Milbank LLP became the fourth firm to strike a deal with President Donald Trump in the wake of a series of executive orders targeting BigLaw, pledging on Wednesday to provide at least $100 million in pro bono legal work supported by the administration and to refrain from what the White House deems discriminatory and "illegal" diversity hiring.
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BakerHostetler Adds Ex-Federal Prosecutor As Partner
A former assistant U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Illinois has joined BakerHostetler in its Chicago office as a partner in the firm's litigation practice group, where he will focus on white collar matters, internal investigations and civil litigation.
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NY Judge Sanctions Attys For Adding Futile Claims
Lawyers representing an education resources supplier that sued its business partner over allegations of price-fixing and bid-rigging within the New York City school system have been sanctioned for repeatedly attempting to add claims to unauthorized amended complaints in what a federal judge said violated rules against bad faith or futile motions.
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Ex-Kirkland Atty To Drop Bias Suit, Appeal Atty Firing Ruling
A former Kirkland & Ellis LLP intellectual property associate is expected to drop her claims against the law firm and related defendants, while also appealing a ruling that precluded her from firing her attorney in the case, the parties told a California federal court Tuesday.
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Atty Can't Duck Land Dispute Malpractice Suit, NJ Sisters Say
New Jersey sisters who sued Fox Rothschild and a firm attorney over the handling of their late stepfather's estate have told a New Jersey state judge that their claims were timely filed and that issues of material fact that would preclude summary judgment still remain.
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When Can Attys Decide To Drop Clients? ABA Says It Depends
Lawyers can drop clients at will as long as doing so won't harm the client's legal objectives or needlessly drive up costs, according to new guidance by the American Bar Association — but the guidance also notes that "getting out of a matter can be a lot harder than getting in."
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Kramer Levin DC Leaders Head To Hogan Lovells With Team
A quartet of former Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP attorneys, two of whom helped co-lead the firm's Washington, D.C., office and held other leadership roles, have moved their broad commercial litigation practice to Hogan Lovells, the firm announced Wednesday.
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Longtime Philly Federal Prosecutor Rejoins Berger Montague
A former assistant U.S. attorney has returned to Berger Montague's Philadelphia office after more than 25 years, with plans to continue fighting on behalf of consumers and investors who have been wronged.
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Holland & Knight Opens In Seattle With 16 Karr Tuttle Attys
Holland & Knight LLP has opened a Seattle office with 10 partners and six associates from Karr Tuttle Campbell that will be led by former Davis Wright Tremaine LLP managing partner Scott MacCormack, the firm announced Wednesday.
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Ogletree Opens Kentucky Office With Boutique Attys
Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC, a big law firm representing employers in labor and employment disputes, is opening a Lexington, Kentucky, office and has hired the two leaders of a Kentucky boutique law firm with experience in representing mining companies.
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Trump Can't Dodge Suit Over Use Of Isaac Hayes Song
President Donald Trump and his 2024 campaign on Wednesday were denied an early exit from a suit over their use of the 1966 song "Hold On, I'm Coming," as a Georgia federal judge ruled that the estate of soul artist Isaac Hayes plausibly alleged it held the rights to the song he co-authored.
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Motley Rice Alum Grows Niche With New Whistleblower Firm
Armed with decades of securities law experience, Rebecca M. Katz recently stepped down as chair of Motley Rice's whistleblower practice to launch her own firm focused on this niche specialty. She spoke with Law360 Pulse about what it means to be a whistleblower, why the cases are tougher than they might seem, and what's ahead for government enforcement during the second Trump administration.
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Litigation Support Co. Opens First Southeastern Office
First Legal, a provider of litigation support services throughout the country, announced Tuesday the opening of an office in Hollywood, Florida, broadening its market to the Southeast.
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Fla. Litigation Funder Must Face NJ Lawyer's Counterclaim
A Florida-based litigation funder pursuing an $18 million breach of contract suit against a New Jersey lawyer must face the bulk of a countersuit alleging the business reneged on an agreement to secure funding for nationwide personal injury cases.
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Paul Hastings Brings On King & Spalding Trial Pro In Houston
Paul Hastings LLP announced Wednesday that it has continued its expansion in Texas with a Houston-based litigator who came aboard as a partner from King & Spalding LLP.
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Tesla Asks Del. Justices To Undo $176M Atty Fee 'Windfall'
Tesla urged the Delaware Supreme Court on Tuesday to slash a $176 million attorney fee award granted as part of an excessive director compensation suit settlement, saying it amounts to a "windfall in a case that settled well before trial and after three years of only tepid litigation."
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Schiff Says He'll Hold On Trump's Pick For DC US Attorney
Senate Judiciary Committee member Adam Schiff announced Tuesday he will hold on President Donald Trump's nomination of Ed Martin to be the top prosecutor in Washington, D.C., calling Martin a "one-man wrecking ball" demolishing the wall between the White House and the U.S. Department of Justice.
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UC Regents Face Trimmed Suit Over Antisemitism At Berkeley
A California federal judge on Monday trimmed two Jewish advocacy organizations' lawsuit accusing UC Berkeley and its law school of tolerating antisemitism, allowing the suit to go forward on their claims the university was "deliberately indifferent" towards Jews on campus.
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AG Paxton Objects To Whistleblowers' $2.4M Fee Award
The Texas attorney general's office color-coded over 100 pages of billing records provided by attorneys for its former deputies, telling an Austin court that eight categories of their work should be subtracted from a proposed $2.4 million fee award.
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Pork Price-Fixing Fight Over Sales Data Swap Heads To Trial
A Minnesota federal court mostly denied Monday a slew of summary judgment motions from Tyson and other pork producers seeking wins in an antitrust suit alleging they conspired with data firm Agri Stats to fix pork prices and reduce supply, teeing up the high-stakes multidistrict litigation for a June trial.
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Meta Can't Narrow Health Privacy Suit Scope, Consumers Say
Two consumers who claim that Meta secretly collected their health information data through an "invisible tracker" on third-party websites told a California federal judge Tuesday that the social media giant is improperly trying to narrow their proposed class action to cover just one third-party health website.
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Legal Carveout For Staff Sinks DA Aide's Pregnancy Bias Suit
A top aide to Atlanta's former district attorney who alleged she was fired for getting pregnant falls under an exception to federal anti-discrimination law as an elected official's staffer, the Eleventh Circuit said Tuesday, backing the dismissal of her bias suit.
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Willkie Becomes 3rd Firm To Reach Deal With Trump
After issuing a string of executive orders in recent weeks targeting BigLaw firms, President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP had agreed to provide $100 million in pro bono legal services for certain causes and to refrain from what Trump has called discriminatory diversity hiring practices.